She was born in 1980 in Bratislava. She studied screenwriting and documentary filmmaking at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and Prague. Her student film 100 Days, made at FAMU, received the Golden Dinosaur Grand Prix in 2010 at the Etiuda&Anima IFF.

In her work she combines documentary, fiction and animation practices and explores the boundaries between these disciplines.  With other colleagues she runs a production company Guča films, based in Slovakia, focusing on producing films of young emerging directors from the region. Besides making her own films, she also collaborates on other independent film projects as script editor and editor.

Her recent films Frem (2019), White on White (Bílá na bílé, 2020) and Notes from the Eremocene (2023) have been presented at numerous international film festivals and won several awards. Frem and Notes from Eremocene had their international premiere at Berlinale in the Forum section. In 2014, she made the film Gottland, an adaptation of the best-selling collection of reportages by Mariusz Szczygieł.